The same week that Macheath escaped hanging in the Broomhill Opera's South African adaptation of John Gay's 1728 "The Beggar's Opera" at New Haven's Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas, Macheath was ...

Let's start again, shall we? I've heard it said that good theatre has the power to transport you to another place. While sitting through Act II of the Roundabout's current production of The Threepenny ...

At the beginning of “The Threepenny Opera,” the entire cast assembles on stage and stares directly at members of the audience. So much for respecting the fourth wall. Bertolt Brecht, who wrote ...

A few of you may be wondering what I'm talking about, which is exactly what I'll get into soon. Truth be told, before writing this, I didn't know what The Threepenny Opera was either, but I'm here to ...

Dark-humor musicals can be a tough prospect for small, non-professional theater companies striving to retain a work’s intensity while communicating its humorous side, all while trying to line up ...

There's a real feeling of 1928 Berlin to the new production of "The Threepenny Opera" that Soulpepper Theater has mounted as the first musical in the Toronto classical repertory company's nine-year ...

I suppose that a work as brilliant as Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera is bound to be interpreted and reinterpreted on the stage, each version as much a mirror of its time and place as of the ...

[IMG:R]Tony Award winner Alan Cumming is back at Studio 54, where he triumphed as the Emcee in Cabaret, to play Mack the Knife in one of the greatest hits to every shake up the world of musical ...